A researcher at the Singapore security firm COSEINC, Joxean Koret, is all over the technical news sites. He is being quoted almost everywhere, including on ComputerWorld and Inquire in the UK, about assertions that all of the major antivirus programs are vulnerable to attack...
Data breaches that impact customers are costly in many ways. They are costly to cleanup. They are costly in the erosion of their customer’s confidence and business. They can kill e-Commerce. Increasingly, data breaches are costly in legal liabilities. The latest exampl...
Summer may be hard upon us, especially here in the very steamy New York area, but it is not too early to prepare for sending kids back to school. In fact, my daughter will return to College and my son will return to High School in just a month and we just did our back to sch...
When I read about hackers and cyber criminals I often think of the old TV show Get Smart. After vanquishing a villain, Agent Maxwell Smart would often recite a lament that typically went “If only he had used his genius for good and niceness instead of evil.” If o...
Every time you turn around, it seems there is another high profile data breach in the news that involves the compromise of cardholder data. The Target data breach alone may have compromised the data of more than half of all adult Americans. It has never been more important t...
The Mozilla has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in their Firefox browser, including 11 critical fixes. Among the critical fixes is for a “use after free” bug. This is where a program referencing memory after it has been freed. This c...
Without SSL and SSL Certificates e-Commerce as we know it would not be possible. All SSL Certificates provide a secure connection between a browser and a server with all messages encrypted with Public Key Encryption (PKI) technology. So, why are there so many product offers...
There is a right way and a wrong way for an organization to handle a data breach. Unfortunately, they are sometimes the SAME way. The consensus in crisis management is that it is always best to get in front of a bad news story by getting it out quickly so you can frame the s...
vBulletin Solutions announced this week that they have a critical emergency patch to their vBulletin forum software to fix an SQL injection vulnerability that could allow hackers to access the software’s databases. The vulnerability and fixes apply only vBulletin version 5....
If you would really like to be infected by malware, the best place to go these days is amazon.com! According to a quarterly report for Q2 2014 by Solutionary’s Security Expert Research Team (SERT), Amazon hosts 41% of all malware identified by SERT’s honeynet. A honeynet is...
